Stubborn Baby
W just learned to crawl and to sit up, which means bedtime is now a battle of wills: lay him down, he pops back up, crying. We ran that cycle a few times before the crying finally stopped. Was he asleep? Yes. Was he lying down? No.
Topic
weight loss
A collection of 18 posts
Protein, Burpees & Waterfalls
My hunt for a decent protein powder ended at Paleo Pro: twice the price, fewer ingredients, and a flavor like watered-down fake chocolate. The lesson, again: do not put things in your body that you bought on Amazon. Then I taught the kids burpees in the driveway and we walked to the waterfalls.
GaN Pro Desktop Fast Charger...Garbage
The brandless GaN charger I picked off Amazon had one trick: power only whatever I plugged in last, starving everything else. The replacement was barely better. My bigger-picture lesson: a company that sells a product with no brand name probably knows exactly how bad it is.
Five Books to Rule Them All
Going through ten boxes of once-vital books, I found exactly five worth shelving. On sentimentality turning into clutter, the suspiciously fifth-grade prose of 3 Body Problem, a deliberate $10 tip my bank flagged as a possible 53% error, and the strange waves of hunger during my 18-hour fasts.
It Pays to be a Woman
S got a flat at the grocery store, and before she could even think, one stranger handed her fix-a-flat and another did all the work. It pays to be a woman. Plus some hard-won thoughts on how kids murder your exercise habits, and why keeping any habit alive beats rebuilding it later.
King of the Mountain
Trail running got me back on Strava, where it turns out I still hold one lone KOM on a stretch of road I can't even picture. Plus why 3 Body Problem scratches the same itch as The Martian (smart people who actually sound smart), and J's improvised Mandarin talent-show act.
$10 Per Push-up or $1 million
Reddit asks: $10 per push-up for life, or $1 million now? The top answer caps out at 200 push-ups a day and calls that unsustainable. But $730k a year, for life, is the lazy minimum, and the million is long gone. A fun thought experiment, perfectly timed with my humbling DEXA scan.
The Perseverance of the Saints
Our bedtime reading went from Little Pilgrim's Progress to the Westminster Confession on the perseverance of the saints, and the kids tracked it beautifully. I ain't raisin' no Catholics. Also: asphalt running misery, and a pile of free health-tracking toys.
